There are many of things wrong with this TOC article. The thought of tackling them all tires me, so let me do just one for now. Let us grant them the assumption that owning a car is part of ‘the Singaporean Dream’. Even so, it’s hardly the government’s moral obligation to Singaporeans fulfill their dreams. Whatever you think human rights are, the right to own a car is not one of them. By the logic used in that article, the government should also be obliged to subsidize housing to the extent that every Singaporean can own either a luxury condo or landed property. And, if it should one day become a widespread ambition of Singaporeans to, I don’t know, own an iPhone, then the government should be obliged to pony up for iPhone subsidies too. And those of us who don’t care for such material luxuries will have to pony up by way of increased taxes to grant our brethren their Singaporean Dreams.